eli@pws.bull.com (Steve Elias) (10/30/90)
I called Hawaii a couple o times last month on US Sprint. don't know if they have fiber to Hawaii, but the sound quality was great. There were no weird echo-cancelling noises, but I did notice that there was a short time delay occuring, so perhaps a satellite link was involved. ; Steve Elias, eli@pws.bull.com; 617 932 5598 (voicemail) ; 508 294 0101 (SCO Unix fax) ; 508 294 7556 (work phone)
dnewman@mcc.com (David Newman) (11/01/90)
Calling Hawaii and Africa on AT&T recently, I have had trouble with delays. The other person and I get confused about who is talking because of the delays, and we both talk at the same time, or we have long pauses in the conversation waiting for the other person to talk. I thought that someone in the Digest indicated that AT&T was superior to the other long-distance companies in this respect. Is that superiority limited to the lower 48 where AT&T has a better network? Don't all the LD companies use basically the same network once you get outside the continental US? Dave